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(Law before power, not power before law!)

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/04/30/gaza-freedom-flotilla-says-boats-surrounded-by-israeli-military_6752993_4.html

A quotation from Accius

Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.
 
[Óderint, dum métuant.]

Accius (170-c. 86 BC) Roman tragic poet, literary scholar [Lucius Accius, Lucius Attius]
Atreus (fragment 168) [tr. Kline (2010)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/lucius-accius/20033/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #accius #cicero #seneca #suetonius #caligula #compliance #danger #despot #fear #hatred #leadership #lifeanddeath #threat #tyrant #terrorism #coersion #obedience #compulsion #power

A quotation from Accius

Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.
 
[Óderint, dum métuant.]

Accius (170-c. 86 BC) Roman tragic poet, literary scholar [Lucius Accius, Lucius Attius]
Atreus (fragment 168) [tr. Kline (2010)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/lucius-accius/20033/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #accius #cicero #seneca #suetonius #caligula #compliance #danger #despot #fear #hatred #leadership #lifeanddeath #threat #tyrant #terrorism #coersion #obedience #compulsion #power

A quotation from Accius

Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.
 
[Óderint, dum métuant.]

Accius (170-c. 86 BC) Roman tragic poet, literary scholar [Lucius Accius, Lucius Attius]
Atreus (fragment 168) [tr. Kline (2010)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/lucius-accius/20033/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #accius #cicero #seneca #suetonius #caligula #compliance #danger #despot #fear #hatred #leadership #lifeanddeath #threat #tyrant #terrorism #coersion #obedience #compulsion #power

A quotation from Accius

Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.
 
[Óderint, dum métuant.]

Accius (170-c. 86 BC) Roman tragic poet, literary scholar [Lucius Accius, Lucius Attius]
Atreus (fragment 168) [tr. Kline (2010)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/lucius-accius/20033/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #accius #cicero #seneca #suetonius #caligula #compliance #danger #despot #fear #hatred #leadership #lifeanddeath #threat #tyrant #terrorism #coersion #obedience #compulsion #power

Having gone to a 10 day #Vipassana retreat, I recognize that the #technique gives me the #sensitivity and the tools to work on my #adhd.

1. I am aware of #anxiety popping up where I would not have noticed it, before.
2. I can observe my #focus getting twitchy because of my anxiety, trying to find #peace somewhere.
3. I can prevent it latching onto random thoughts.
4. I can redirect my focus to #consciousness, #balance and my #body.

This retrains the #compulsion into a me that I enjoy more ❤️‍🩹

[en] Haidt: dramatic global decay in cognition, attention spans, civic life

"Social psychologist Jonathan #Haidt presented a forceful analysis of the #damage #smartphones and social media are doing to our #cognition, our civic fabric, and our #children’s #wellbeing ..."

"... our collective inability to put our phones away, our #compulsion to check social media ... is causing a host of societal problems" ... "far beyond any rise in #anxiety and #depression."

"... the #destruction of the human capacity to pay #attention. ... if we can’t focus or stay on a task for more than 30 seconds."

"We allowed a few giant companies to own our children’s attention ..."

"The good news is, there is human agency"

https://news.mit.edu/2026/personal-tech-social-media-and-humanity-decline-0306

#manipulation #addiction #bigtech #socialmedia #mit #stern #nyu

[en] Haidt: dramatic global decay in cognition, attention spans, civic life

"Social psychologist Jonathan #Haidt presented a forceful analysis of the #damage #smartphones and social media are doing to our #cognition, our civic fabric, and our #children’s #wellbeing ..."

"... our collective inability to put our phones away, our #compulsion to check social media ... is causing a host of societal problems" ... "far beyond any rise in #anxiety and #depression."

"... the #destruction of the human capacity to pay #attention. ... if we can’t focus or stay on a task for more than 30 seconds."

"We allowed a few giant companies to own our children’s attention ..."

"The good news is, there is human agency"

https://news.mit.edu/2026/personal-tech-social-media-and-humanity-decline-0306

#manipulation #addiction #bigtech #socialmedia #mit #stern #nyu

[en] Haidt: dramatic global decay in cognition, attention spans, civic life

"Social psychologist Jonathan #Haidt presented a forceful analysis of the #damage #smartphones and social media are doing to our #cognition, our civic fabric, and our #children’s #wellbeing ..."

"... our collective inability to put our phones away, our #compulsion to check social media ... is causing a host of societal problems" ... "far beyond any rise in #anxiety and #depression."

"... the #destruction of the human capacity to pay #attention. ... if we can’t focus or stay on a task for more than 30 seconds."

"We allowed a few giant companies to own our children’s attention ..."

"The good news is, there is human agency"

https://news.mit.edu/2026/personal-tech-social-media-and-humanity-decline-0306

#manipulation #addiction #bigtech #socialmedia #mit #stern #nyu

[en] Haidt: dramatic global decay in cognition, attention spans, civic life

"Social psychologist Jonathan #Haidt presented a forceful analysis of the #damage #smartphones and social media are doing to our #cognition, our civic fabric, and our #children’s #wellbeing ..."

"... our collective inability to put our phones away, our #compulsion to check social media ... is causing a host of societal problems" ... "far beyond any rise in #anxiety and #depression."

"... the #destruction of the human capacity to pay #attention. ... if we can’t focus or stay on a task for more than 30 seconds."

"We allowed a few giant companies to own our children’s attention ..."

"The good news is, there is human agency"

https://news.mit.edu/2026/personal-tech-social-media-and-humanity-decline-0306

#manipulation #addiction #bigtech #socialmedia #mit #stern #nyu

[en] Haidt: dramatic global decay in cognition, attention spans, civic life

"Social psychologist Jonathan #Haidt presented a forceful analysis of the #damage #smartphones and social media are doing to our #cognition, our civic fabric, and our #children’s #wellbeing ..."

"... our collective inability to put our phones away, our #compulsion to check social media ... is causing a host of societal problems" ... "far beyond any rise in #anxiety and #depression."

"... the #destruction of the human capacity to pay #attention. ... if we can’t focus or stay on a task for more than 30 seconds."

"We allowed a few giant companies to own our children’s attention ..."

"The good news is, there is human agency"

https://news.mit.edu/2026/personal-tech-social-media-and-humanity-decline-0306

#manipulation #addiction #bigtech #socialmedia #mit #stern #nyu

A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of a man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign, and believe there, by the grace of God alone!

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-15), “The Hero as Priest,” Home House, Portman Square, London

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/6667/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #belief #compulsion #force #freethought #freedomofreligion #freedomofthought #intolerance #judgment #orthodoxy #religiousfreedom #religiousintolerance #selfdirection #soul #theocracy

A quotation from Bill Watterson

HOBBES: Whatcha doin’?
CALVIN: Looking for frogs.
HOBBES: How come?
CALVIN: I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul.
HOBBES: Ah. But of course.
CALVIN: My mandate also includes weird bugs.

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1995-03-13)

More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/80715…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #compulsion #hobby #mandate #soul #spirit #differentdrummer

A quotation from Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Whatever you think you have to do is simply what you want to do.
 
[Was Du zu müssen glaubst, ist das, was Du willst.]

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) Austrian writer
Aphorisms [Aphorismen], No. 60 (1880) [tr. Scrase/Mieder (1994)]

Sourcing, notes, other translation: wist.info/von-ebner-eschenbach…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aphorism #compulsion #desire #duty #justification #moralduty #must #obligation #preference #requirement #selfrighteousness #volition #will #wishing #excuse